False hope is based on the human ideas of what is pleasurable and desirable. Many people think that their problems will disappear is they can just get what they want, and sometimes counselors encourage them in that error by promising or intimating that their desires will be satisfied. This is a serious mistake, because God never promises us that we will get everything we want, nor does he even tell us that getting what we want will make us happy. Often what we want is not what is best for us, and a name-it-and-claim-it approach to our desires only compounds our problems.